Public/private key, can't seem to get it working

[echo]

Hi everyone,

In a nutshell, been using 9.3 for a couple months as a server for a small business. Being the go-to person for technical stuff, my boss requested for me to find a way to backup the server to a remote computer (in case a disaster occurred) in an autonomous fashion. What I've read up deals with using the Public Private key in either rsync or a cron job.

On the business side server, I've ssh-keygen for the account that will be associated with the backup, using the default save location /usr/.ssh/ followed by an scp transfer of the id_rsa.pub to the remote computer. After disabling the password auth both in control services and in users, attempts to use the pairing results in the connection being refused (public key). Looking at the permissions, they seem in order. Looking into the var/log auth.log file, notwithstadning attempts from Chinese based ip's , the only notable thing is around the time I was attempting the auth, the logs were showing a sighup condidtion

Not sure what to do, please help if possible

 

[depasseg]

Have you seen the directions on how to configure the public and private keys for PUSH and PULL:

http://doc.freenas.org/9.3/freenas_storage.html#replication-tasks

 

[echo]

Thank you depasseg for the link. I have some reading to do :)

 

[depasseg]

It looks more complicated that it is.

Just step through the instructions, and you should be good.